Another Rainy Saturday

If the space in Seattle Center where the Vera Project resides wasn’t the excellent all ages group’s home, it would make a great home for a goth club. I love Vera, of course, but the showroom is dark and cavernous. It made for a fitting place for the buzzy, Brooklyn-based pop band Class Actress to [...]

The all-girl, Mark Ronson-produced, LA-based band The Like played their first show in Seattle in several years Monday night at the Vera Project. The Like has undergone a bit of a stylish makeover, from a good but unmemorable rock band that filled a void between Donnas albums into a hip, retro pop band with catchy [...]

…or so said The Like’s lead singer Elizabeth “Z” Berg when I interviewed her in the summer. Her band was on the road but weren’t headed to the Northwest. Fortunately, the band will be playing a show in Seattle and it’s very soon. The Like will be playing at the Vera Project next Monday (October [...]

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists – “Bottled In Cork” (Official Video) from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists {Ted Leo and the Pharmacists play at the Vera Project on Wednesday, September 8 with Past Lives, $13, all ages.} This video for Ted Leo’s new single “Bottled in Cork” has been making its way across the various circles [...]

There’s an awful lot going on this weekend in Seattle, even with it being a major holiday on Sunday. What is on your agenda (other than drinking beer and lighting fireworks, not necessarily in that order). This is a mostly incomplete list of what’s going on through the weekend. Neumos Beach Party is tonight with [...]